Zhou Xia

Zhou Xia
Personal information
Nationality China
Born12 July 1999 (1999-07-12) (age 27)[1]
Huaihua[1]
Sport
SportPara-athletics
T35
Event
Sprints
Medal record
Women's athletics T35
Representing  China
Paralympic Games
Gold medal – first place2016 Rio de Janeiro100 m T35
Gold medal – first place2016 Rio de Janeiro200 m T35
Gold medal – first place2020 Tokyo100 m T35
Gold medal – first place2020 Tokyo200 m T35
Gold medal – first place2024 Paris100 m T35
Gold medal – first place2024 Paris200 m T35
World Championships
Gold medal – first place2023 Paris100 m T35
Gold medal – first place2023 Paris200 m T35
Gold medal – first place2024 Kobe100 m T35
Gold medal – first place2024 Kobe200 m T35
Silver medal – second place2017 London100 m T35
Silver medal – second place2017 London200 m T35
Asian Para Games
Gold medal – first place2018 Jakarta100 m T35
Gold medal – first place2018 Jakarta200 m T35
Gold medal – first place2022 Hangzhou100 m T35
Gold medal – first place2022 Hangzhou200 m T35

Zhou Xia (born 12 July 1999) is a Chinese para-athlete who competes in sprint events. She won two gold medals at the 2016 Summer Paralympics, in the T35 100 m and 200 m races. At the 2020 Summer Paralympics, she won two gold medals in the T35 100m race and T35 200m, setting a new world record in both event.[1][2]

Career

Zhou competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, when she was 17 years old. She won the T35 100 m (ahead of Australia's Isis Holt and Britain's Maria Lyle) and set a Paralympics record for the event with a time of 13.66s.[3] She also won gold in the T35 200 m event with a world record time of 28.22s.[4]

Zhou competed in the IPC Athletics World Championships in London in 2014. She won the silver medal in both the 100 m and 200 m events, behind Isis Holt.[5][6]

Zhou competed in the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo. She won the T35 100 m in a world record time of 13.00s. She also won the T35 200 m in a world record time of 27.17s.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "ZHOU Xia". Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 27 August 2021. Retrieved 27 August 2021. Date of Birth: 12 Jul 1999 / Sport Class: T35 / Place of birth: HUAIHUA
  2. ↑ "Athletics – Paralympic Records". Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 27 August 2021. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
  3. ↑ "Rio 2016: The new teens on the block". Athletics Weekly. 14 September 2016. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
  4. ↑ Lindsay, Anna; Chowdhury, Saj (18 September 2016). "GB ensure best medal haul since 1988". BBC Sport. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
  5. ↑ "Maria Lyle wins another World Championships medal". East Lothian Courier. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
  6. ↑ "Results – Women's 200m T35 Final" (PDF). Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. 16 July 2017. Retrieved 17 July 2017.
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